londje

Ladino

Alternative forms

  • londji (Monastir, Sarajevo), longe

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Galician-Portuguese longe.[1]

Adverb

londje (Hebrew spelling לונג׳י)[1]

  1. (Salonica) far away
    Synonym: leshos
    • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎[1], Editions Vidas Largas, page 52:
      Mas londje, komo un kulevro vedre entrando en la agua, se via el "Kutchuk Karaburnu" ke los djidyos yamavan la Punta Tchika (o Petit cap en franses).
      Further away, like a green snake entering the water, the ‘Kutchuk Karaburnu’ was seen, which the Jews were calling the Little Tip (or petit cap in French).
    • 1999, David M. Bunis, Moshé Cazés, edited by David M. Bunis, Voices from Jewish Salonika‎[2], Misgav Yerushalayim, →ISBN, page 517:
      Ke eskatafires me estás fazyendo de londje?
      What crap are you doing to me from far away?

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “londje”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
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